The White Sox have signed right-hander Luke Farrell to a minor league deal, according to his transactions tracker at MLB.com. He has been assigned to the Arizona Complex League White Sox for now, but will presumably move to a higher level after ramping up in a delayed spring ramp-up.
Farrell, 32 in June, has pitched in each of the past six major league seasons, but rarely staying with any club for long. He’s bounced around the rosters of the Royals, Reds, Cubs, Angels, Rangers and Twins in his career. Last year, he signed a minor league deal with the Cubs and was eventually selected for a second stint on their roster. He was designated for assignment about two weeks later and was claimed by the Reds, joining that club for a second time. He was outrighted towards the end of the season and eventually elected free agency. Between the two teams, he tossed 15 innings over six appearances with a 5.40 ERA. He also tossed 60 innings in the minors with a 4.95 ERA, starting 11 of his 18 appearances.
For his career, he’s tossed 102 2/3 innings with his ERA currently at an even 5.00. He’s struck out 23.3% of batters faced with a swinging strike rate of 10.2%, but he’s also walked 11.7% of opponents while getting ground balls on just 32.4% of balls in play.
Farrell has worked both as a starter and reliever in his career. It’s unclear how the Sox intend to use him, though they have been hit with a few notable injuries in their bullpen while their starters Dylan Cease, Lucas Giolito, Lance Lynn, Michael Kopech and Mike Clevinger are all healthy. Their 15-day injured list currently has Liam Hendriks, Garrett Crochet and Joe Kelly on it, while Matt Foster was recently transferred to the 60-day. Farrell will get some work in at the ACL level and provide the club with some non-roster depth whenever he’s back in game shape.
I wish Farrell success. But this signing shows the depth and future of this White Sox staff, as a whole. But it won’t stop Stoney from avoid mentioning how bad it really is, on his weekly radio appearances. Steve somehow avoided talking about the walks this staff has been issuing lately. That has been a huge problem. But he did find time to mention the fine defense that Grandal and Moncada have been playing. Huh!!?!
Grandal? Defense? A contradiction of terms.
Walks lately? As in since 2021 lately? This pitching staff walks everyone.
Dude is gonna be on the Roster by the end of May. Either injuries or ineptitude by the BP.
What a totally disfunctional franchise! Has nothing to do with the Like Farrell signing, just putting it out there.
What are you talking about? I think the Sox are the best AAA team in the majors.
So I was at a party last week in Bridgeport. We were starting up the grill and enjoying the warm weather. We just put some sausage on the grill. My wife was in the process of making some fruit salad. My next door neighbor is actually besties with Luke. So as I was making some grasshoppers to serve to some of the participants, Luke walked in with Tony Graffanino . Yes Tony himself. I didn’t know this but Tony is a DJ on the side. We danced the night away to Grease hits. True story !!
Thanks for sharing these tidbits pharmo. You’re almost like a modern day, Forest Gump.
You da man. I hope the fruit salad turned out good. I hope someday you run into Stoney with, maybe Lindsey Graham?
lover – Can you ask your next door neighbor if Luke’s father really did hook up with Jessica Moran … not that there’s anything wrong with that, he separated from Sue at the time.
TVA couldn’t dam Pharm’s raging streams of hyper consciousness.
May they forever flow!
More cowbell.
I’d like to see Kopech in the bullpen and Lopez in the starting rotation.
I’d also like to see Reinsdorf sell the team.
This is one of the ultimate dumpster dives. I just want to say if this was the plan, The plan is severely flawed and broken. Farrell is horrible.
I come from the belief that you can’t win it in the first month of the season, but you can certainly lose it. I am not sweeping this Phillies series aside, but the next 13 games after this series are against the Rays, Blue Jays and Twins. Already four back in the standings this is a very critical two week stretch as we enter May.
Including the Phillies series if they go 8-8 in those games, they can tread water–but if they duplicate their first 16 and go 6-10 again, the boat is going to take on too much water.
I’m not sure if the plan is flawed or they just don’t have the right “baseball players.”
Hahn should have signed Will Farrell. The season is already pretty laughable, might as well go with it.
More garbage picking from a garbage organization